Pierpaolo Lazzarini is an Italian designer with a futuristic vision who has put his signature on some of the most impressive projects anyone could ever imagine. A visit to his website where he invites us to “think about the future, without forgetting the past” is enough to get an idea of the prodigious imagination that this 21st century Leonardo da Vinci possesses for designing cars, spaceships or superyachts. . His works leave no one indifferent. They surprise with their originality.
One of the most acclaimed projects of this 40-year-old Roman is called Pangeos. It is a turtle-shaped cruise ship more than 500 meters long and 610 meters wide at its widest point. which is designed as a floating city with a capacity of 60,000 people. The idea was presented by Lazzarini in 2009 and, having been on the back burner ever since, has now been revived with the aim of making it a reality in the next decade.
This gigantic turtle-shaped ship has all kinds of services that we can find in a big city. Hotels, luxury apartments and commercial areas share space with large gardens, tennis courts and swimming pools. The project also includes the construction of a small heliport and a port with the idea of making it as accessible as possible.
The structure of Pangeos is made up of several blocks, with a main square from which several buildings will derive in a structure organized in a spiral. The services of the terayate will be placed on its own shell, including a 100% electric transport service that allows you to move from one end of the boat to the other. In the wing area, 69 apartments, 19 private suites and 72 terraces were designed.
The name chosen by Lazzarini to baptize his project, Pangeos, is a declaration of principles. Pangeos is a derivation of Pangea, the great supercontinent that existed at the end of the Paleozoic about 335 million years ago, which represents a whole, a unit, like this impressive terayate which has an approximate cost of 8,000 million dollars, a similar figure in EUR.
For now, it’s just a concept that can only be appreciated through computer-generated animation, but the studio’s designers have already told the media that the construction of the macro-vase could take shape in 2033. The estimated duration of the works is eight years.
Due to its colossal size, which would place it as the largest ship on the planet – the Wonder of the Seas would represent only 10% of this terayat -, the Pangeos could not dock in any port in the world. This floating city would move across oceans and seas at a top speed of 5 knots, according to sources at the design studio.
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Pangeos also requires a special structure for its construction. Lazzarini chose a structure near the King Abdullah port, in Saudi Arabia, to carry out his project. For this it is necessary to have a dry dock that can be flooded so that the Pangeos is seaworthy once it is fully built.
Lazzarini paid particular attention to the sustainability of this small floating city. Nine 16,800 horsepower electric motors that will work thanks to the energy of gigantic solar panels placed on the body of the yacht will be responsible for the movement of the entire structure. The Italian designer has also indicated that the boat will benefit from tidal energy obtained from the collision of the waves with the yacht’s propellers.
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Source: Clarin
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